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Bezig met laden... Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir (2020)door Natasha Trethewey
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.   ) decaturmamaof2 | Nov 22, 2023 |  Sadly, her previous stepfather followed through with his threat and cold-bloodedly put a bullet through Natalie's mother's forehead. At first a journey into Civil Rights, then when Natasha's mother is murdered, she takes an in-depth look at her mother's life and the way in which choosing the wrong person changed their lives forever. At Memorial Drive in 1985, Natasha lost her mother at the hands of a man who had a mission to kill. The way in which he spoke to Natasha when her mother was not home was creepy and chilling. He promised to kill, sadly it wasn't taken seriously. This is a small book that literally packs a punch. Recommended. Whisper1 | Aug 6, 2023 | At first I found it difficult to engage with Trethewey's story, because she seemed so distant from it herself in the writing. But as more details slowly unfolded, it became a heart-wrenching exploration of buried memories, unexpected discoveries, and survivor's guilt. I picked it up this afternoon some twenty pages short of the half-way point, and could not stop. The book leaves a lot of questions unanswered for the reader, but was well worth reading. (  ) laytonwoman3rd | Apr 26, 2023 | Natasha’s stepfather murdered her mother when Natasha was 19, and away at college. This is the story of her childhood up to and including that event. It took Trethewey three decades to be able to look back and reflect on what went on. Her story almost seems a gruesome fairy tale. She is the child of a black mother from New Orleans and a white father from Canada, who met as college students working in the 1960s civil rights movement. Her early years in Mississippi were happy, although once the Ku Klux Klan burned a cross in the front yard. But her parents’ marriage did not survive, and mother and daughter moved to Atlanta, where her mother met and married the evil stepfather. Who eventually murdered her. The most fascinating aspect of the book for me is the interplay of remembering and forgetting after trauma; why and what we choose to forget, and what we are unable to forget. So much of the past is lost to us. Remembering the past is like striking a match: scenes flare up, brightly lit for a moment before they fade away. The book is a succession of such moments, some gentle, some horrendous. And the nagging question: did this really happen to me? Toward the middle of the book, Trethewey includes police reports and other documentation, as if to convince herself of the extent of the tragedy. Here’s the proof, she seems to be saying. You don’t have to believe just me. This is a masterly exploration of the effects of profound trauma. The good news is that through her poetry and her work, Natasha Trethewey survived it, and even thrived. ( ) deckla | Jan 8, 2023 | emmy_of_spines | Sep 8, 2022 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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HTML: An Instant New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2020 Named One of the Best Books of the Year by: The Washington Post, NPR, Shelf Awareness, Esquire, Electric Literature, Slate, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and InStyle A chillingly personal and exquisitely wrought memoir of a daughter reckoning with the brutal murder of her mother at the hands of her former stepfather, and the moving, intimate story of a poet coming into her own in the wake of a tragedy With penetrating insight and a searing voice that moves from the wrenching to the elegiac, Pulitzer Prizeâ??winning poet Natasha Trethewey explores this profound experience of pain, loss, and grief as an entry point into understanding the tragic course of her mother's life and the way her own life has been shaped by a legacy of fierce love and resilience. Moving through her mother's history in the deeply segregated South and through her own girlhood as a "child of miscegenation" in Mississippi, Trethewey plumbs her sense of dislocation and displacement in the lead-up to the harrowing crime that took place on Memorial Drive in Atlanta in 1985. Memorial Drive is a compelling and searching look at a shared human experience of sudden loss and absence but also a piercing glimpse at the enduring ripple effects of white racism and domestic abuse. Animated by unforgettable prose and inflected by a poet's attention to language, this is a luminous, urgent, and visceral memoir from one of our most important contemporary writers and thinkers. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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